Tom Friedman's column yesterday still beating the drum for Bush to impose peace in the Middle East.
If he's correct, there are people among the Palestinians whom we could work with. But he ignores the fact that Arafat is the main obstacle to any solution.

This desperate demand for peace through diplomacy is the sign that the diplomats are out of ideas. Friedman talks tough at times, but he really has no stomach for what must be done. Somehow the Palestinians must cast off Arafat and his methods.
Nobody can do it for them.

The West, likewise, has no other choice in dealing with radical Muslims who think that returning to what they see as fundamental Islam. It can only force a change of attitude in the only way that has worked, military defeat.